This is the News section for this website. It is not the news for the course English for Policy and Planning Sciences (FH11011). That course has been merged into the course Academic English for Policy and Planning Sciences (FH60341).
News and all other required resources for both courses are on or linked from the Manaba pages for FH60341.
Thu Oct 1 21:23:52 2020
Other than the notification above, this site has not been updated since January.
Information on this site relates to past instances of the course. It may be useful, but you should not rely on its accuracy with respect to policies in the 2020 instance of the course.
You may find Old News useful to give you an idea of how the course proceeds.
This course is a more or less random walk through topics of social and economic science that I find interesting at a level appropriate to this course, taught mostly in English.
Content of classes is tentative. Watch for updates.
Lecture | Date |
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#1 | Friday, October 4 |
#2 | Friday, October 11 |
Sports Day | Friday, October 18 (no class) |
#3 | Friday, October 25 |
#4 | Friday, November 1 |
#5 | Friday, November 8 |
#6 | Friday, November 15 |
#7 | Friday, November 22 |
#8 | Tuesday, November 26 |
Entrance exam | Friday, November 29 (no class) |
#9 | Friday, December 6 |
#10 | Friday, December 13 |
Exam day | Friday, December 20 |
Vacation | December 27--January 3 |
Assignments due | Friday, January 10 (tentative) |
I do not think it is appropriate to set a written examination for this course. Instead, grades are based on a project and homework assignments, and possibly a final interview depending on class size. The project description is linked below. Homework (50%) and final project (50%) are about equally weighted. Attendance will be taken occasionally at random times, but does not count heavily in final grades.
Homeworks are due at 11:00 am on the due date. If you do not submit by the deadline, submit it late for partial credit. No homework will be accepted after the Assignments Due date in the Lecture and Homework schedules.
More homework will be assigned later.
Homework | Link | Due Date |
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#1 | Self-introduction by email | 2019/10/11 |
#2 | Keitai customs | 2019/10/11 |
#3 | Describe nonrival goods | 2019/10/25 |
#4 | A nearby network | 2019/10/25 |
_ | Assignments due (tentative) | 2020/01/10 |
Homework may also be submitted to turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp. You must write the subject in half-width English letters, digits, and symbols, and include the course registration number FH11011 in the subject. If you do not follow these rules, the filter which automatically files your message to the homework folder may fail, and your homework may get lost. Also, you will not automatically get a receipt, so save your original message as proof of submission.
Note that due dates are not always class days.
The detailed pages describing each assignment may be revised, and if so, revisions will be announced on the course home page in News. However, the basic idea will not change, only clarifying changes will be made.
All due dates are 11:00am, Japan Standard Time.
All due dates are tentative.
Part | Due date | Description |
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_ | Assignment of Final Report | |
#1 | 2019/10/25 | Find the Wikipedia |
#2 | 2019/11/01 | Find an incomplete Japanese article |
#3 | 2019/11/22 | Post your translation |
#4 | 2019/12/20 | Post your reviews |
#5 | 2020/01/10 | Submit final version (date change?) |
Fri Oct 11 13:46:38 2019
Fri Oct 11 12:03:19 2019
Tue Oct 8 16:08:18 2019